Events Calendar
Conferences/public lectures
The Centre normally holds 3 one-two day conferences in the academic year, and may host others, as well as offering public lectures. The Stephen Copley lecture is held annually, and CECS staff have given papers for the York Festival of Ideas.
Research Seminars
Where the CECS community of staff and students gather to hear and debate the latest research about the eighteenth century. Centre research seminars are held regularly in term time on Tuesdays at 4.30pm in KG/07 at the King's Manor.
Postgraduate Forum
The CECS Postgraduate Forum is a student-lead interdisciplinary research group that meets to listen to and discuss papers from fellow York postgrads, students from other universities, and visiting professors, in a relaxed and friendly environment.
Forthcoming Events
Previous events
Thursday 20 February 2020
New Contexts for Remarks on Clarissa: Dialogues, Book Reviewing, and 'Scenes of Criticism'
Tuesday 18 February 2020
The Libraries and Reading Habits of British Prisoners of War in Napoleonic France and Mauritius
Tuesday 11 February 2020
“Burying our Money in Stone Walls”: Fortification and the East India Company, c. 1690–1740
Wednesday 5 February 2020
'The True State of Our Condition,’ Or, Where are Robinson Crusoe’s Insect Companions?
Tuesday 4 February 2020